The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-04-14
THE TABERNACLE SERMON.
DR.. TALMAGE'S EASTER THEME "THE
OVERTHROW OF THE MONSTER"

OVERTHROW OF THE MONSTER"
Death Abolished by Being Swallowed
Up in victory-The Soul Does Not Wait
for Funeral Obsequies Obituaries,
but Goes Right to Heaven.
BROOKLYN, April 10-To-day being Easter
Sunday the tabernacle was profusely de-
corated with flowers. The pulpit, the pillars,
cnd tho galleries were great garden
Cf bloom. Professor Browne, the organist,
and Professor Ali the cornetist, rendered
selections from Handel, Haydn and Bee
tEoven, appropriate to the day celebrated
The subject Of Dr. Talmage's discourse was
"Tho Overthrow of the Monster" and his
. text, Isaiah, XIV, 8: "He will swallow up
death in victory" DIR. Talmage said:
About 1853 Easter mornings have awakened
the earth. In France for three centuries the
oimanacs made the year begin at Easter,
until Charles TX made the year begin at
Jan. l. In the tower of London there is a
royal pay roll of Edward l. on which there is
an entry of eighteen pence for 400 colored
and pictured Easter eggs, with which the
people sported. In Russia slaves were fed
and aims were distributed on Easter Ecclesi-
astical councils met at Pontus, at Gaul, at
Rome, at Achaia, to decide the particular day,
and after controversy, more animated than
gracious, decided it, and pow through all
Christendom, i'll some way the first Sunday
after the full moon which happens upon or
next after March 81 is filled with Easter
rejoicing.
Tho royal court of the Sabbaths is made up
of fifty-two Fifty-one are princes in the
royal household, but Easter is queen She
wears richer diadem and sways a more jew
eled scepter, and in hepSmile nations are Ia
dated. Unusually welcome this year because
Of the harsh winter and the late spring, she
seems to step out of the snow bank rather
than the conservatory, come out of the north
instead of the south, out of the Arctic rather
than the tropics, dismounting from the icy
equinox; but welcome this aueenly day,
holding high up in her right hand the
wrenched off bolt of ChriSt's sepulcher and
holding high up in her left hand the key to
all the cemeteries in Christendom
1t is an exciting thing to see an army routed
and flying. They run each other down. They
scatter everything valuable in the track. I'm
wheeled artillery, hoof of hoI 80 on breast
Of wounded and dying man. You have read
of the French failing back from Sedan, or
Napoleon's track of 90, 600 corpses i'll the snow
banks of Russia, or of the retreat of our own
army from Manassas, or Of the five kings
tumbling over the rocks of Bethoran with
their armies, while the hail storms of heaven
and the swords of Joshuas host struck them
with their fury. In my text is worse dis
comfiture. 1t seems that a black giant pro-
POSED to conquer the earth. He gathered for
his host all the aches and pains and malarias
Cld cancers and distempers and epidemics of
lie ages. He marched them down, drilling
hem in the northeast wind and amid the slush
..rave mound. He pitched tent of charnel
house. Some of the troops marched with
STOW tread, commanded by consumptions,
soTne i'll double quick, commanded by pneu-
nlo8ias. Some he took by long besiegemenG
Of evil habit, and some bv one stroke of the
blLtleax of casualty. With bony hand he
rounded at the door of hospitals and sick
roo1ns, and won all the victories in all the
g"eat battlefields of all the five continents.
Forward march, the conqueror of conquerors,
and all the generals and commanders in chief,
aud all presidents and kings and sultans and
cars drop under the feet of his war charger
But one Christmas night his antagonist was
born. As most of the plaques and sicknesses
and despotisns come out of the east, it was
appropriate that the new conqueror should
como out of the same quarter Power is
given him to awaken all the fallen of all the
against the black giant. Fields have already
been won, but the last day of the worlds ex-
istence will see the decisive battle When
Christ shall lead forth his two brigades, the
brigade of the risen dead and the brigade of
the celestial host, the black giant will fall
back and the brigade from the riven sepul-
chers will take him from beneath and the
brigade of descending immortals will take
him from above and death shall be swal-
lowed up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the con-
quest and demolition of the planet has lost his
throne has lost his scepter, has lost his palace,
has lost his prestige, and the one word writ
ten over all the gates of mausoleum and
!catacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph and
sarcophagus, on the lonely khan of the Arctic
explorer, and on the catafalque of great
cathedral, written in capitals of azalea and
.calla lily, written in musical cadence, written
An doxology of great assemblages, written on
the sculptured door of the family vault, is
Ayictory." Coronal word, embannered word,
apocalyptic word, chief word of the trium-
phal arch under which conquerors return.
Victory Word shouted at Culloden
and Balaklava and Blenheim, at Me-
piddo and Solferino, at Marathon, where
the Athenians drove back the Medes; at
Poictiers, where Charles Martel broke the
ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis, where
Tbenlistocles in the great sea fight confounded
the Persians, and at the door of the eastern
cavern of chiselled rock, where Christ cams
out through recess and throttled the king
of terrors, and put him back in the niche
from which the celestial conqueror had just
emerged. Aha when the jaws of the east
ern mausoleum took down the black giant
."lieath was swallowed up in victory" 1pro
claim the abolition of death.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygial
ferry and Charon with oar aud boat. Mel
,o,e Abbey and Kenilworth castle are NJ
more in ruins than is the sepulcher. W.
shall have no more to do with death than W,
bave with The cloaBroom at governors o
nresident's Ieyse. We stopat suck cloakroon
and leave in charge of u servant our overcoat
our overshces, our outward apparel, that w
may not he iInpeded in the brilliant round o
~, drawing room. WE'LL nay friends, whel
80 go out of this world we are going to
l;a's banquet, and to a reception OF nion
nrrus, and at the door of the tomb we leay
the cloak of flesh and the wrappings witt
which sye meet the storms of this world
x1. e{ose of an earthly reception, under tn
a.re.sn and broom of the porter the coat o
,,., nav be handed to us better than when W
lbs. ned il, and the cloak of humanity wi
saa,ly be returned to us improved and bright
aneA and purified and glorliied.
You and do not want our bodies returne
as they are now. we want to get rid OF a
heir weaknesses and all their susceptibilitie
+e fatigue and all their slowness OF locomt
non They will be put through cbeGlistr
of scii and heat end cold and changing seasoi
.rli Of which God will reconstruct them {
.,,. bet,ex than they are now as the bod
81 the rosiest sDd heathiest child that bounc
oyer the lawn at Prospect park is better tia
sue ssckest patient iii Bellevue hospital III
us 10 our SOUL we will cross right over, NJ
waiting for obsequies, independent ot OBJ
uary, into a state in every way better, VIZ
ssa~--
m